Ofcourse it can happen.. Any program you get from the internet can contain malware, especially with mods.. All they need to do is make a fake mod and advertise it as some kind of haxx cheat aimbot and droves of gullible people will happily download and install it.

Ofc it's possible, if you run an .exe file and allow the program to run with admin rights it can do pretty much anything it wants. Best advice is to avoid mods in the first place, WG have included so much mods into the vanilla client by now that you don't really need a mod, and if you actually do need it there's plenty of "trusted" sites where the propability to get malware instead of mods in very low.

Fun story: Many years back when I went to school we had a fun thing (well not so fun for the victim) going on. When someone forgot to lock his computer, we did all sorts of fun stuff with it. However I wanted it to take it to the next level, so I created a program that when run, it randomly double clicked somewhere on the screen, and it did this once every millisecond and couldn't be exited (unless you restarted your computer ofc). As if that wasn't enough we placed the .exe file in the autostart directory One time the program actually managed to randomly click its way into the control panel and started uninstalling the guys Visual Studio After a while people got very careful with not forgetting to lock their computers... wonder why

Ofc it's possible, if you run an .exe file and allow the program to run with admin rights it can do pretty much anything it wants. Best advice is to avoid mods in the first place, WG have included so much mods into the vanilla client by now that you don't really need a mod, and if you actually do need it there's plenty of "trusted" sites where the propability to get malware instead of mods in very low.

Fun story: Many years back when I went to school we had a fun thing (well not so fun for the victim) going on. When someone forgot to lock his computer, we did all sorts of fun stuff with it. However I wanted it to take it to the next level, so I created a program that when run, it randomly double clicked somewhere on the screen, and it did this once every millisecond and couldn't be exited (unless you restarted your computer ofc). As if that wasn't enough we placed the .exe file in the autostart directory One time the program actually managed to randomly click its way into the control panel and started uninstalling the guys Visual Studio After a while people got very careful with not forgetting to lock their computers... wonder why

When i was in school we made TSR's in Assembler to create fake Novell Netware 3 logon screens and use it to capture loginnames/passwords.. Or boss screens that when you pressed some key combination would instantly show the Turbo C GUI instead of the sh1t you were doing on the backround (creating cool ASCII art logo's for BBS's)

Sounds like some people do not have a ok firewall and anit virus program and a brain

If you manually start an .exe and give it admin rights you can forget that any firewall or anti virus will get it. Although I agree with the part about the brain.

dennez, on 20 November 2017 - 12:26 PM, said:

When i was in school we made TSR's in Assembler to create fake Novell Netware 3 logon screens and use it to capture loginnames/passwords.. Or boss screens that when you pressed some key combination would instantly show the Turbo C GUI instead of the sh1t you were doing on the backround (creating cool ASCII art logo's for BBS's)

People who want to install mods via executable files shouldnt install them at all..

Exactly, +1. It should be enough to use a simple .zip file etc. But .exe files have been used for those massive modpacks that allows players to customize which mods they want. You know, double click .exe, pick what you want, the program extracts it and copies it for you. Works very well if the one creating the program doesn't have any bad intentions. Works very bad if it's the opposite. Even that popular modpack (forgot it's name) actually installs itself rather than just extracting contents, like wtf why would anyone want it installed on their computer

There are 2 exe-files I'd trust to install mods from, Aslains and Odem Mortis. And both downloaded from their very own very real websites, not www.wot-cheats.ru..

True, but half the mod packs from even legal mods on any RU mod site contains some crap if you get an .exe file. Even spamware from mail.ru. As we have seen topics about before. Not heard about Russian mod packs with keyloggers etc for a while. But it's safe to say with some certainty that they are still out there. And any single mod or mod pack with an .exe file with a wall of text you don't understand is something to stay clear of.

True, but half the mod packs from even legal mods on any RU mod site contains some crap if you get an .exe file.

What irritates me about those RU mods is the Russian-language automated lines triggered when someone has been spotted or hit, etc. So weird to see those in EU battles. Surely they can be switched over to English in the mod setting by anyone with a few brain cells?

There are 2 exe-files I'd trust to install mods from, Aslains and Odem Mortis. And both downloaded from their very own very real websites, not www.wot-cheats.ru..

I don't know about Odem Mortis, but I've always wondered why Aslains install itself on the computer. Why doesn't it simply let you pick what you want, and then only extract it? Why does it install itself?

I don't know about Odem Mortis, but I've always wondered why Aslains install itself on the computer. Why doesn't it simply let you pick what you want, and then only extract it? Why does it install itself?

OM works the same way. It needs the installer so it can automatically search and download what you picked from the server and extract it to the correct folder. You can't really pick and choose from a mod pack zip file, it wouldn't know what to extract and what not to, it needs the installer for that.

Balc0ra, on 20 November 2017 - 12:17 PM, said:

True, but half the mod packs from even legal mods on any RU mod site contains some crap if you get an .exe file. Even spamware from mail.ru. As we have seen topics about before. Not heard about Russian mod packs with keyloggers etc for a while. But it's safe to say with some certainty that they are still out there. And any single mod or mod pack with an .exe file with a wall of text you don't understand is something to stay clear of.

That's why you only download them from their own respective sites, not a russian mod site. Odem Mortis has it's own proper website and Aslains a forum thread, never download them from anywhere else.